One thing you may have noticed with most of the rifles shown thus far is the lack of a full set of back-up iron sights (front and rear BUIS). Despite what the “tactical experts” say about back up iron sights beeing a must on any tactical gun, a lot of soldiers, myself included, have h...

Zhang’s team’s gold-nano-brick adaptive camo/visual cloaking tech would appear to be significantly thinner than the UC San Diego team’s tech . Anyway, in one test, the Berkeley National Lab team wrapped a 36-micron-sized irregularly-shaped object with the ultra-thin gold-antenna-brick...

DefenseReview (DR) recently got to handle a prototype Beretta APX pistol at Beretta Tactical Summit 2015 (the first one ever), and it impressed us. Being a prototype, we only got to handle it for a few minutes, not fire it at the range. However, the pistol looks good AND feels good in...

by David Crane defrev at gmail dot com May 11, 2004 Combined Tactical Systems, Inc. (CTS) is currently developing a mini-flash-bang (mini-tactical grenade) called the 7290M. The 7290M will be roughly half the size of their standard 7290 flash-bang/tactical grenade , but it will delive...

SureFire High Capacity Magazines have the potential to be real game-changers by providing significantly increased immediate firepower to U.S. infantry warfighters, particularly for dynamic, high-round-count full-auto engagements, thereby increasing their chances of survival in combat....

S&W M&P Shield sub-compact pistol series feels much thinner/slimmer than an unloaded M&P9c/M&P Compact .40 S&W, because it is. It's also significantly shorter. There's really no comparison between the M&P Shield and its high-capacity M&P compact predecessors, once you handle both of t...